Knitting patterns and motives

I’ve been collecting these for awhile now and not so long ago my computer has crashed and I’ve lost OH so many patterns that I’ve saved. SO in order to prevent it from happening again I’ll be posting these awesome finds on my blog here for safekeeping and for others to use. Very important to know these patterns are not my creations unless specified, many of them were found without proper author identification so unfortunately there’s no way for me to give credit!

interesting cable I use Google Translate when the pattern description is in an unfamiliar language

Beautiful cable. These instructions are in Russian, so I can translate. They suggest working the WS rows according to the pattern

Pretty for a lacy skirt or top

again very pretty and airy

This is a page scanned from a Russian magazine, that has interesting patterns for relief knitting. The simplest stitches are used here K and P.

the relief knitting continued

This looks like Polish to me for the translation purposes, however the marks used should be universal to all the knitting patterns. I believe filled square stands for K, empty square P, blue triangle P2tog through back loop? (not quite sure) and circle stands for YO

Hi thank you for a suggestion. I am on ravelry and I’ve tried submitting some things there before that wouldn’t have the source, and it’s not like I was trying to claim they were my designs, I indicated that the source was unknown and they didn’t allow me to post those :( So this I find is a best way at this time to share and save my found treasures :)

i am so glad to come across your blog, as a result of desperately looking for english translation for a russian pattern that i am dying to try. i could not google its translation because it is a jpeg file :( i got a tiny bit of understanding of russian knitting terms from a knitting chart that you posted above, yet sadly it’s not enough for me to break down the pattern instructions meaningfully in english. could you please translate it for me? this is the only site that comes closest to the information i need…others have broken links to russian knitting dictionary or the pages don’t already exist. here’s the link to the pattern:

I’ll try to do my best. I’ll comment here, once I have time to sit down and write out a pattern for you. I’ll be honest it may take some time, simply because I have a lot going on right now, but I’ll translate it for you as soon as I’m able! :)

It looks like the complete explanation, but again, russian and I can’t understand one word. It seems like there’s too many girls out there trying to figure out how to make it cause it’s all over Pinterest! If you could translate it for us, we would be so grateful!

Hi, thank you for your comment and the link.
First of, I want to say that your requests were not being ignored, I simply didn’t have time to manage my blog for a long time, unfortunately. Now that I’m back with it, I looked into the pattern, however it is very complicated and some of the stitch names aren’t familiar to me. I will do my best to translate it for you and post it here on my blog.

I’ve tried to figure out how to knit it, but it’s impossible to make it just by seeing it. I wish I could do something to help, cause this is making me crazy for months, it’s such a mystery! I know how to make decreases in many different ways, so if that help, just say.

I’ll have a look at this chart, looks like it has a lot of explanations below too, right?
I don’t quite understand what they mean with the colors, guess I’ll have to figure it out by trying to knit it! Have you tried it?

I made it! The stressful part was to realize that the stitches on pink and purple are made on the same stitch (the loop made on the previous row from the yarn over). It’s a wonderful pattern, just knit it with a thin yarn so you can stretch it on blocking to show the openings, otherwise it’s a hidden beauty.
I can’t thank you enough!!! ❤

just came upon your request on the cowl. She translated it for me last year and I did it in an afghan. Beautiful. My friend has a photographic memory and taught herself about 20 languages 30 years ago and has been translating knitting-crochet ever since. Please do not spam her. She is always on the road going from town to town helping translate for people, any language. Please no spam for her. Write her at the_knit_knack(at)promessage(dot)com Her name is Pearl.